Quotes About Zaira

If the cavaliere, heading toward the pirate ship, meant to reach this Zaira, she must be a woman who was there in those Ottoman countries. Maybe his whole life had been dominated by longing for that woman; maybe she was the image of lost happiness that he pursued by raising bees or designing canals.

Zaira had no dealings with children. Not even Arrow children. "What am I supposed to do?" she said to Aden. "Pick her up." "Like a sack of supplies?" "A bit more carefully.